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Preparing for a rapidly changing world. Creativity Excellence Enjoyment The future. When our current Year 1 cohort reach employable age, 80% of the jobs they will be doing do not even exist yet due to the rapid developments in technology. Examples. DVD players Medicine Travel
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Preparing for a rapidly changing world Creativity Excellence Enjoyment The future...
When our current Year 1 cohort reach employable age, 80% of the jobs they will be doing do not even exist yet due to the rapid developments in technology.
Examples • DVD players • Medicine • Travel • Satellite TV • Mobile Phones • Computers • Email & Internet
For Discussion With the employment market so open to change, what skills do we want Our Lady and St Gerard’s children to leave our school with?
Imagination, Purpose, Originality, Value. What would make an eight year old say, "WOW!"
Children’s Interests • Computer games –Playstations etc. • Cinema, films, cartoons etc. • ‘Celebrities’ – Footballers, pop stars, movie heroes or heroines. • TV (Loco parentis) – Soap operas, reality TV, X Factor etc. What do we, as teachers, do with this culture?
Excellence and Enjoyment • Personalised learning. • Embracing children’s interests. • Engaging the whole child. • ECM • Enjoying and achieving through learning. • Having FUN!
Examples of creativity • Test out instructions by playing and making • Stimulating starting points -Smell a scene • Detective kits • Sentence length - mood through music • Walk through a story • Feeling • Taste • Act out verbs, adverbs, sentences etc • Narrative writing through dance
Retention Rates • Lecture 5 % • Reading 10% • Audio-visual 20% • Demonstrating 30% • Discussion 50% • Practice by doing 75% • Teaching others 90%
What have other schools done? • Used the children’s interests in their learning. • Audited children’s different learning styles and preferences – VAK. • Planned to include different styles. • Introduced less traditional sports -Crown Green Bowling! • See Grange Primary in Derbyshire.
Useful Websites • www.grangeton.com • www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit/Information/ourprojects1/grangeton/?version=1#1102029 • www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edcreative.htm#index • www.ncaction.org.uk/creativity/ • www.saskent.org.uk/sub-creativity.html • http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/atoz/c/creativityinschools/ • www.alite.co.uk • www.enchantedlearning.com • www.adrianbruce.com • www.rsa.org.uk/newcurriculum/index.asp